Missing emails in Mavericks mail app

I also have disappearing messages. In fact, I saw it happen right in front of my eyes yesterday.

I sent an email with my IMAP account, to a group of addressees. On of the the addressees is a forwarder address to everyone at my work. The message also has a BCC to myself.

Mail was focused on the Sent folder. After pressing send the message showed up in the folder for a couple of seconds. But then **poof** - it was gone. It just disappeared from the folder. Like it was deleted, but then without being selected first. I searched everywhere, but it just went into a black hole or something.

The message was sent though, because my collegues received it. I, however, did not get the BCC, and it's not showing in the Sent folder.

does it show in the archive folder (in the mail app)?

Nope. The only proof I have that I wrote the message was forwarded to me, by my collegue.

you tried quitting/restarting mail? Maybe rebuilding the mailbox?

Thanks for replying Macerik. I did both, but to no avail. In fact: the message is also missing when accessing my IMAP account through webmail (Squirrelmail in this case), so it seems to have been removed from the server as well. I checked all folders in my webmail, but it was nowhere.

I am having the same problem. Currently what I see is that there are e-mails missing within last 5 days from my gmail. I carefully read the entire thread and checked all mailboxes (archive, etc.) and the email is missing.

If anybody solves this, please post here.

thanks!

Just another complaint about Mavericks mail app. I had an email account and all it's emails, drafts - eveything disappear after I installed Mavericks and I can't find it.
No fix or updates remedy this.
I would like to uninstall Mavericks because of rhat and the fact that my iMax is running so slow now after this update.
I can't stand this thing - it reminds me of the microsoft garbage I used to have to deal with before I changed to Mac.
If I wanted garbage I'd have a PC - so what's up with this update?????

As noted by others, I also have disappearing emails.

(Yes, I've updated to Mavericks, and rebuilt mailbox folders.)

The problem occurs intermittently.

Lost emails follow a "move to" local mailbox.

Very bad.

Within the past week, over 14,000 emails have disappeared from my inbox. I have rebuilt the mailbox (on more than one occasion), and software is fully up to date. Additionally, emails are randomly marked as "Junk" and cannot be unmarked as Junk en masse. I have to do it in small batches. Later, hundreds upon hundreds of email are once again marked as Junk. The emails I lost are from different points in time, seemingly random, and from multiple senders. As someone who relies (relied) on old emails for purposes of keeping a convenient record of communications related to legal transactions in which I am involved, this has been a crippling loss. No "fix" that comes up when I Google this problem offers any sort of solution, and I am resigned to the fact that thousands of my emails are gone forever. I am utterly exasperated with Apple and am rethinking, and regretting, my decision to eschew PCs in favor of what I once assumed was a superior and, for the most part, glitch-free operating system. Mac Mail has literally just wiped out hundreds of hours of my attorney work product. Disgusted!

Same issue, for the last two days. Intermittently, I send an email and once it sends, it disappears as though it never existed. In addition to the unbelievable slow down of both my Macbook Air and iMac after "upgrading" to Mavericks, I am at my wits end. This "Mac Guy" is losing the faith...

I upgrades to Mavericks over the weekend and noticed when back at work on Monday, that my messages sent from Apple mail are no longer showing up in Sent mail. I have started adding a bcc: to myself but this is not a very good solution. Apple mail seems much slower than last week in pulling new messages from my university's mail exchange. I'm really dismayed by this "improvement."

George,

If you go to the web version of gmail, I would be shocked if all of your emails were not there. I too have the same problem, though for me it is some folders yes, some no that have disappeared.

D

If you need to force a resync of your Apple Mail and Gmail mailbox have you tried - Menubar > Mailbox > Synchronize > and choosing your gmail account?

Do you see the same problem on your iPhone?

How are you noticing that the mail disappears? Are you searching for it, or do you know it should be there and it is just hidden from the inbox view?

When I was trying to isolate a similar problem I created a smart mailbox with filters to identify what I thought was missing email. It found it and when I went back to my regular inbox it was there also. Not sure if this is a Gmail server side issue or an issue with your Apple Mailbox database.

- Stephen

http://learni.st/users/Riptide360/boards/69477-optimizing-apple-mail